Since Heck was a pup!

'Since Heck was a pup"

Just a few happenings from today. 

The last couple of days Mom has been talking more  about going home . She had pretty much gotten that down to about once a day. A couple of days went by without it being mentioned.  Seems like things kinda cycle around.  Yesterday it was foremost on her mind.  She mentioned it at least every hour, sometimes more.   Today she was talking about how long she had been away,  I was in the process of telling her how long it had been and just as I said it's been...she chimed in and said "since Heck was a pup".   I wonder where in the world that saying came from?  I do remember hearing her say it before ( a long long time ago).

I'm still working on the princess dresses and I was in the kitchen sewing (she's not real crazy about me being in the other room where she can't see me) anyway it was time for a break.  I came into the living room and set down, she asked me where I had been.  I told her that I was sewing the princess dresses for the twins.   Who has twins? she asked.  ( I think that punctuation is wrong..oh well)  I told her that Mark  had 4 year old twins.  She started laughing.  I asked her what she was laughing about and she started talking about a time when we lived in Asher and she came down to stay with the boys while Mike and I went to Annapolis to visit our oldest for Parents weekend at the Naval Academy.  The other boys were at school, one was a senior, one was a freshman and the other was in the 4th grade.  When school was out  the boys came driving up to the house and mom was outside hanging clothes on the clothesline.  Unfortunately for the boys (who had friends in the car with them) mom was in the process of hanging their underwear on the line.:)  She remembers how funny that was to her and how embarrassed the boys were.   It's funny the things that she pulls out of her mind!

A little later we were sitting just talking and she asked me If I remembered that little song that she used to sing to my sisters and me.  I asked her which one she was thinking about and she started singing it to me....."My Momma told me , If I was goody, that she would buy me a rubber dolly....Now don't you tell her , I have a feller, or she won't buy me a rubber dolly.  Then she told me that her mom sang it to her when she was a little girl. Along with a lot of other ones.   And we pass them on to our little ones